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Are ChatGPT’s favorite words creeping into daily conversation? ► Digital Information World ► 8/28/25

In praise of CliffsNotes study guides in the age of AI ► LitHub ► 8/28/25

“AI slop” videos may be annoying, but they’re racking up views – and ad money ► NPR ► 8/28/25

Books aren’t magic empathy pills (but they help) ► LitHub ► 8/28/25

In graphic detail: AI adoption increases, but U.S. consumers are still wary ► DigiDay ► 8/28/25

Trusted news sites may benefit in an internet full of AI-generated fakes, a new study finds ► Nieman Lab ► 8/28/25

In the age of AI, why write music yourself? ► HypeBot ► 8/28/25

BookTok shakes up the literary world ► Worth ► 8/28/25

Anthropic’s great book heist: Do the ends justify the means when it comes to training AI? ► JD Supra ► 8/27/25

Anthropic’s settlement with authors may be the “first domino to fall” in AI copyright battles ► Fortune ► 8/27/25

AI comes for the job market, security, and prosperity: the debrief ► MIT Technology Review ► 8/27/25

AI vs. author: Are writers losing work to machines in 2025 ► Magic Valley ► 8/27/25

How Book of the Month club survived 100 years of a turbulent publishing industry ► Fast Company ► 8/28/25

How to turn off Copilot in Word: step-by-step guide for 2025 ► Startup News ► 8/28/25

Afro-Latina Antonette Franceschi-Chavez talks accessibility to books for the BIPOC community ► HipLatina ► 8/27/25

Dolly Parton wants to give your child free books. Imagination Library now in Sacramento ► The Sacramento Bee ► 8/27/25

The Book Rescuers: Largo business on mission to rehome books, build community ► 83 Degrees ► 8/27/25

Love in the bookstore: It once may have been a toxic relationship, but people are no longer afraid to admit they read romance novels ► My Journal Courier ► 8/27/25

ChatGPT has its uses, but I still hate it – and I’ll tell you why ► The Guardian ► 8/27/26

Book authors settle copyright lawsuit with AI company Anthropic ► AP News ► 8/26/25

Five top writing tips explained ► University Affairs ► 8/26/25

Libby’s library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled ► Tech Crunch ► 8/26/25

Fiction as soul fuel: Why stories move us ► The Objective Standard ► 8/26/25

A California teen died by suicide. His family says AI coached him and “he would be here but for ChatGPT” ► The Independent ► 8/26/25

Zero main character energy for children with disabilities in Australian picture books ► EurekAlert ► 8/26/25

A.I. and I-Thou ► Counterpunch ► 8/26/25

Citizen is using AI to generate crime alerts with no human review. It’s making a lot of mistakes ► 404 Media ► 8/25/25

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people ► Ars Technica ► 8/25/25

The defense against slop and brainrot ► Substack ► 8/9/25

Ban it or use it? How teachers are grappling with generative AI in the classroom ► WHYY ► 8/25/25

Perplexity is launching a new revenue-share model for publishers ► Editor & Publisher ► 8/25/25

AI is not democratizing writing ► Plagiarism Today ► 8/25/25

The AI doomers are having their moment ► Business Insider ► 8/25/25

AI is “microwave dinner” and craftspeople Michelin-starred chefs ► Little Black Books Online ► 8/25/25

Column: Class of 2029, resist the urge to use AI for your humanities work ► GW Hatchet ► 8/25/25

3 ways to save yourself from AI’s critical thinking decline ► Psychology Today ► 8/25/25

Dictionary.com’s summer word drop is here. This time it’s supersized ► PR Newswire ► 8/25/25

Google measures and shares the environmental cost of AI prompts ► Innovative Origins ► 8/25/25

Meet the “performative male”: Are men reading books for attention? ► The Independent ► 8/25/25

Are only bad writers human? Why perfect writing now gets you branded AI ► Vocal Media ► 8/24/25

How reliable are AI book summaries? A closer look ► Qazinform ► 8/24/25

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality ► BBC ► 8/24/25

Defending reality from AI ► Opus ► 8/24/25

First reading dies, then knowledge, then science. It’s the Disenlightenment ► The Times ► 8/24/25

Can the AI data center boom be stopped? Meet some opponents with battle plans. ► Yahoo! Finance ► 8/23/25

“Keep the craft alive”: Moravian Book Shop pushes back on use of AI ► Lehigh Valley News ► 8/23/25

Bubbling questions about the limitations of AI ► NPR ► 8/23/25

Sam Altman sparks outrage, admits openly, “No kid born today will ever be smarter than AI” ► Times of India ► 8/22/25

NEA’s Creative Writing Fellowship program canceled ► Publishers Weekly ► 8/22/25

As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost ► AP News ► 8/22/25

Netflix releases ethical AI guidelines for content production ► Web Pro News ► 8/22/25

Rise of the incompetents ► Inside Higher Ed ► 8/22/25

Iowa’s International Writing Program faces an uncertain future ► Iowa Magazine ► 8/22/25

I tried the creative rituals of 5 meticulous authors. Here’s what I learned ► Vogue ► 8/22/25

Publishers explore new ways to get paid when AI uses their work ► AdWeek ► 8/22/25

The ghost in the publishing machine ► The Observer ► 8/22/25

The AI doomers are getting doomier ► The Atlantic ► 8/21/25

Google launches personalized Gemini Storybook app to industry concern ► Publishers Weekly ► 8/21/25

ChatGPT shaming is making our writing so much worse ► Slate ► 8/20/25

Stop AI-shaming our precious, kindly em dashes – please ► The Ringer ► 8/20/25

AI has passed the aesthetic Turing Test – and it’s changing our relationship with art ► The Conversation ► 8/20/25

Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of “AI psychosis” ► BBC ► 8/20/25

Nerd! How the word popularized by Sr. Seuss went from geeky insult to mainstream ► NPR ► 8/20/25

When words evolve ► Quill ► 8/20/25

Why so few Americans read for pleasure ► The Washington Post ► 8/20/25

Study reveals 40% decline in reading for enjoyment over 20 years ► WCBV ► 8/20/25

“Romantasy” is on the rise, but reading for pleasure has fallen drastically over the past 20 years ► CNN ► 8/20/25

Humanity vs AI: Storywise launches first-ever writing competition to prove human creativity reigns supreme ► KTLA ► 8/19/25

To get people reading, Denmark to end book tax ► The Economic Times ► 8/20/25

Readers want AI disclosure, says YouGov poll conducted with Black Château Enterprises ► EIN Presswire ► 8/19/25

When AI failed to see who belongs outdoors, this photographer set out to re-train it ► Outside ► 8/19/25

Newspapers are rescued from closure in Wyoming and South Dakota as buyers swoop in ► Huron Daily Tribune ► 8/19/25

Chinese literature is tough to find in English. One editor hopes to change that ► NPR ► 8/18/25

Books are having a moment. So why are we getting rid of book criticism? ► The Baltimore Banner ► 8/28/25

Florida law banning school library books ruled ‘overbroad and unconstitutional’ ► Alabama Reflector ► 8/18/25

News publishers continue quest for content compensation ► Editor & Publisher ► 8/19/25

Organisers cancel book prize over trans controversy ► BBC ► 8/18/25

Cambridge Dictionary adds ‘skibidi’ and ‘tradwife’ among 6,000 new words ► Writers ► 8/18/25

AI resistance: who says no to AI and why? ► Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft ► 8/18/25

The quiet extinction of creative thought ► New University ► 8/18/25

How creatives can double down on the skills AI will never replace ► Creative Boom ► 8/18/25

‘The year of Dramione’: fan fiction’s leap to bookstore shelves ► UPI ► 8/18/25

The histories you weren’t taught in school ► Book Riot ► 8/18/25

‘Do it often, do it badly if you must, just keep doing it.’ Yael van der Wouden on the writer’s life ► Lit Hub ► 8/18/25

The future of book reviews looks grim ► The Washington Post ► 8/18/25

My kids may be in terribly crafted costumes, but the real magic of Book Week is in the pages ► The Guardian ► 8/18/25

Theft or civil disobedience? ► Kentucky Lantern ► 8/18/25

Guy says he made $3M writing 1,500 AI books, gets absolutely destroyed online ► Bored Panda ► 8/18/25

End the unchecked growth of publishing fees and the overreliance on unpaid peer review ► State News ► 8/18/25

26 respected literary journals ► Authors Publish ► 8/18/25

Meta faces growing backlash over AI chatbots allowing sexualized interactions with minors ► Storyboard 18 ► 8/18/25

Publishers sound alarm over AI-generated sports autobiographies flooding online market ► Complete AI Training ► 8/18/25

AI fake books are proliferating! Amazon exposed as a haven for pirated books, renowned doctor accuses of large-scale fraud ► AI Base ► 8/18/25

A framework for inclusion ► Arts Professional ► 8/18/25

Defiant fired copyright chief urges federal court to connect the dots ► Publishers Weekly ► 8/18/25

Why AI could transform – or threaten – the future of human creativity ► Futurism ► 8/17/25

College students have already changed forever ► The Atlantic ► 8/17/25

AI gives students more reasons not to read books. It’s hurting their literacy ► Fast Company ► 8/17/25

Google might not believe it, but its AI summaries are bad news for publishers ► PC Mag ► 8/17/25

Google AI overviews slash news traffic by 79%, endanger journalism ► Web Pro News ► 8/17/25

We are GenZ and AI is our future. Will that be good or bad? ► The Guardian ► 8/16/25

Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards winners ► Locus Mag ► 8/16/25

Panels, protest, power: Why graphic novels many be read as a voice of dissent across the world ► T2 Online ► 8/16/25

A look at how fan fiction is changing publishing and reading ► NPR ► 8/16/25

Is AI truly creative? Here is the ultimate test ► Mind Matters ► 8/16/25

Films and video games have age classifications. Should books? ABC News Australia ► 8/16/25

AI threatens entry-level jobs? Tech openings for new grads have already been halved, says report ► Live Mint ► 8/16/25

AI hype is the product and everyone’s buying it (an excerpt from The AI Con) ► Truthout ► 8/16/25

Readers skeptical of AI-generated content, studies reveal ► Web Pro News ► 8/16/25

Yiming Ma on the benefits of writing blind ► Lit Hub ► 8/15/25

AI can make reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose ► Civil Beat ► 8/15/25

California pushes AI regulation as experts reveal looming dangers ► San Francisco Public Press ► 8/15/25

What is Stuff Your Kindle Day? The best way to fill your e-reader with free books ► Mashable ► 8/15/25

Don’t believe what AI told you I said ► The Atlantic ► 8/15/25

Rembrandt, Vermeer, and now Hopper – how AI’s remakes are testing the soul of art ► Creative Bloq ► 8/15/25

Freedom to Read advocates cheer decision in ‘PRH v. Gibson’ ► Publishers Weekly ► 8/15/25

Publishers and authors win US book-banning case in “sweeping victory for the right to read” ► The Bookseller ► 8/15/25

The internet is making us fluent in algospeak ► Scientific American ► 8/15/25

Tiny Bookshop review: the cozy genre, perfected ► Punished Backlog ► 8/15/25

A word, please: debunking em dash myths ► Daily Pilot ► 8/15/25

The ‘reading crisis’ in perspective ► McGill ► 8/14/25

50 romance publishers open to direct submissions ► 8/11/25

The funny business of sex scenes ► Book Life ► 8/11/25

The em dash responds to the AI allegations ► McSweeney’s ► 7/17/25

The rise of shortcut writers ► Rising Kashmir ► 8/2/25

Being a fantasy writers in a real-world crisis ► Vocal Media ► 8/1/25

Writers need libraries: How libraries can help you write better ► Book Riot ► 8/1/25

What Tolkien can teach us about the creative life ► Word on Fire ► 8/1/25

AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds ► The Independent ► 8/1/25

Research: The hidden penalty of using AI at work ► Harvard Business Review ► 8/1/25

Julia Whelan has narrated 600 audiobooks and counting. So why isn’t she paid like it? ► Daily Independent ► 7/31/25

How students are reconnecting with the craft of writing ► The Educator Australia ► 7/28/25

How AI is taking over your government ► The Lever ► 7/28/25

What happened when I asked AI to do my job ► The Independent ► 7/27/25

Meet the New Haven teen who has distributed hundreds of free books citywide ► New Canaan Advertiser ► 7/27/25

The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity ► The Washington Post ► 7/27/25

Efforts to restrict or protect libraries both grew this year ► The 74 ► 7/27/25